Facebook, the village of billions.

A recent study found that the average number of Facbook friends, is around 150, which is interesting because the most people that a person can maintain meaningful relationships with, is around 150. This is because the average size of villages and tribes through most of human history, was 150. Another interesting thing, is that people (my self included) complain that Facebook is destroying peoples privacy, which it is, but for most of human history, privacy was a non existent thing, villages were so small that every one new every one else's business. Privacy is a modern invention, that Facebook is uninventing. The key difference though, is that once it's out there, it's out there, note like a real village, where once some new piece of gossip comes about people forget about the last thing. Now some comment you made years ago, can prevent you from getting a job. Some unremembered comment made while more then a little drunk can haunt you for years. So, dear reader, while you commenting on a friends comment about a comment, think twice, and remember, the village is watching, the village sees all, knows all, and it never forgets.